Burn by Tana Stone

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My hot Drexian best friend was tempting–but off-limits. Then we got stuck together on an Inferno Force battleship. Now resisting him is torture.
When the Inferno Force battleship I’m working on jumps away to save a colony under attack, I have no choice but to become part of the crew.

But the Inferno Force ship is nothing like the high-tech space station I’m used to—and the warrior crew isn’t used to females on board. For a curvy brainiac who’s not used to being noticed, I’m now being noticed—a lot.

At least my best work friend—also an Inferno Force warrior—is onboard, but it doesn’t help that I’ve started to look at Vekron as, well, not a friend. The last thing I want is to lose my only friend if things didn’t work out.

When we learn that the attack on the colony didn’t come from the Drexian’s usual enemy, but instead from a new alien scourge sweeping across the galaxy, my traitorous thoughts are pushed aside as the entire ship works to rebuild the colony and defend it from the deadly threat.

But life among the gorgeous warriors is anything but simple, and my feelings for Vekron make it torturous. I might survive the terrifying alien swarm, but can I survive being forced to live side by side with the one guy I can’t risk falling for?

Burn

Another good audiobook with duet narration!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙💜❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: 🙂🥰😎😄
Narration: 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration Type: Duet Narration

The Hero: Vekron – he is a Drexian warrior, and he is also the chief science officer, the tech wizard of the crew. He can fix almost anything, come up with new and innovative technological advancements and much more. He has worked closely with the human Nina and has taught her how to work with a lot of the Drexian technology. He has feelings for Nina who has put him in the friend zone and can’t even imagine him as a potential mate.

The heroine: Nina – she is a holographic designer and she works closely with Zoey on The Island, the high tech holographic space station created to house Drexian warriors and human tribute brides as they get matched, meet and decide if they want to be mates. Nina is a curvy girl and thinks the none of the handsome, muscular Drexian warriors would ever even look at her as mate material, but she wants to be loved, just is unwilling to admit it because she thinks it will never happen for her.

The Story: Vekron takes Nina on a tour of one of the Inferno Force battleship’s so they can talk through some holographic improvements to the ship. The two of them worked on many of the holographic features of The Island, so could definitely make some improvements to the ship while it near the station. They talk about turning the sparring space into a holo-deck. While they are on board, the ship powers up and leaves after a distress call is made to save a colony that is being attacked. They have to make a jump immediately and don’t have time to leave Nina and Vekron at the station.

This book was quite different than the first few, in that their main enemy was not the Kronock’s, but are a new race of alien called Scythians, they are a scourge of pretty awful and deadly oversized alien bugs, which feed their young on alien species. They can swarm and easily overtake an contingent of Drexian warriors as they massacre worlds. They also meet the immortal army of the Taori who have been fighting the scourge across the universe and whom are the Drexian’s only hope for fighting them.

I liked the story in this one, the two main characters had a lot to deal with besides just whether or not they wanted each other. Vekron felt he needed to stay on as an Inferno Force Warrior because that was where he could get the glory his family wanted for him. Though he really loved technology and innovation as well. Plus he didn’t want to force Nina to do anything she didn’t want to do since her original plans were to go back to Earth after her stint on the space station. The two were pretty cute together and I liked both of the characters.

This audiobook was told in multiple points of view and was narrated in duet narration by Aubrey Vincent and Adam Prugh. Adam Prugh has a nice deep voice, with a bit of a rough edge that I liked quite a bit. Aubrey Vincent has a nice voice and sounds natural and expressive as she narrates. In this book, unlike the last, she did a british accent, which I didn’t like as much. She sounds a bit too harsh. Also I absolutely hated some of the voices she did, like the ones she used for Raina and Serge.

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